Posted on 09/17/2009 8:11:26 AM PDT by JoeProBono
INDIANAPOLIS – A woman who worked catering events for the University of Notre Dame says it was her lucky day when the school tipped her $29,000 in her check. But now the university is suing to get back the money she says she's already spent.
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School’s fought. I hope she gets to keep it.
It’d be cool if she would give some of the $$ to Priests for Life...just sayin’!!
She’s a dope for spending, she knew it was mistake, any thinkng person would, I hope the repo and get every dime back ...
Yep!
Wha?
They’re the ones who typed out the check for that amount and when she called them to see if it was a mistake, they wouldn’t contact her back.
True. If she knew it was a mistake, they can nail her for theft. It’s like finding a bag of money at work.
*fought=fault*
She notified them of the overpayment. They did nothing.
I think she knew it wasn’t her money. You know that too.
If she did, indeed, contact the school multiple times about this and they didn’t do anything till months later, then they should just suck it up. It’s their own fault.
Of course she did. Of course I do. But I have no sympathy for “Notre Hussein”.
I am not too sympathetic towards ND, after the Obama speech fiasco, but the university is right on this one.
If there was some way the woman could reasonbly believe the extra $29,000 was a “tip”, I’d probably take her side.
But given that the actual amount was $29.87. it should have been rather obvious to her that someone typed a “3” instead of “.”.
I’m sure, if she made the same mistake, she’d have no problem with the other party keeping her money. /sarc
Keeping the extra money is clearly unethical and immoral, and borders on criminal, IMHO.
I agree. Just use the “if it seems too good to be true, it usually is” test and you will be safe.
The payments were usually the result of the bank missing a stop payment on a check or else typing or processing errors like the one in this story. The people would come up with all kinds of wild stories about how they never ever thought the money was not theirs. I don't remember ever losing one of these cases.
That said, the money was usually long gone. Since the state where I was then practicing did not allow wage garnishment, it was good luck trying to collect on the judgment unless there was a house or some other asset on which to place a lien.
agreed. Isn't there some sort of a banking law regarding this?
Speaking for myself, it would depend on how long my conscience could stand it.
Charitable institution screw up? Likely I'd never spend the money (maybe donate it back to them...).
Employer/Bank/Retailer/Credit Card Screw up? Six Months-ish, depending on the amount, and how polite they were to me when I notified them of the mistake....
The IRS? "Money? What money?"
clearly I’ve watched the Acorn videos too many times. I read the headline as Notre Dame sues SEX-worker over $29,000 tip. LOL
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